Server Admin Tools 10.5.5 not within Software Update routine
Server Admin Tools 10.5.5
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2667>
available as a download but not appearing within Software Update.
I find that a little odd, as it includes updates for users of Server Admin Tools 10.5.3.
Maybe the update package(s) will appear separately in due course…
Pity Apple couldn't be bothered to change the version number of the SA tool. After installation, mine still says 10.5.3. Apple's quality control over the server product line continues to deteriorate. One wonders when they'll actually either hire some additional staff to bring the product up to snuff, or abandon its advancement like the XRAID. How many folks are left on the server development team or have they all been poached for the iPhone/iPod shiny stuff?
Man, there was so much promise in the OSXS package. But it's not even half-cooked compared to the butt-ugly-but-functional alternatives. My clients aren't at all impressed with the stability nor the lack of fine-grain feature management -- and it will be a tough sell to keep them with the Fruit if Apple doesn't fix and enhance THIS cat. Waiting for 'Snow Leopard' to fix everything seems like a stalling tactic. Waiting for Godot.
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Un-install according to the developer's un-install instructions.
You do not need to use cleaning programs. They can destroy your computer operation as they may already have done.
CleanMyMac - Uninstall
CleanMyMac2 Un-install
After un-installing, run this program to make sure you got all the pieces.
EasyFind – Spotlight Replacement
Do a backup.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.appstore.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
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